15 Jul 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1871
Page
1
Louise Chandler MOULTON reflects from her chamber on aging and memory. She contrasts a past of freedom with a present where the old roof feels peaceful. A bird, spring scenery, and a village evoke loss, longing, and a revised sense of heaven and rest.
In this sketch set along the Metedeconk and Squaw Beach in New Jersey, Dave Pearson recalls a stormy sea tale. He pursues Esther Hettrick amid family feuds, a rival Abner Sanford, and a shipwreck rescue that tests pride and love, ending with reconciliation at home.
A list of archaic London street and alley names including Addle Street Rotten Row Gutter Lane Fryingpan Alley Vinegar Yard Mincing Lane The Poultry Shoe Lane Inkhorn Court Candlewick Street Pater Nester Row Amen Corner Sermon Lane Creed Lane Cripplegate Houndsditch Tripecourt Grub Street Halfpenny Alley All Farthing Lane Bandyleg Walk Shoulder of Mutton Alley Cats Castle Hen and Chicken Lane Birdcage Walk Noahs Ark Alley Stinking Lane Turn Again Lane Honey Lane Cut Throat Lane Do Little Lane Labor in Wain Street Pig Alley Blowbladder Street Ebenezer Place.
A celebration of the mockingbird praises its habitat, migratory habits, and unmatched song imitation. The piece quotes Webber on its musical prowess, notes behavior with other birds, and describes its year‑round presence in Gulf states and coastal America.
An English merchant ship faced a French warship during a colonial era war. Cabin boy Charles Wager inspired and led a daring boarding of the enemy vessel, freeing the prize crew and taking command. His plan succeeded, earning him Navy entry, rapid promotion, and eventual knighthood as Sir Charles Wager.
A Dubuque couple faked the husband’s absence in Wisconsin to elicit church aid during winter. A benevolent visitor discovered the boots under the bed and learned the husband had been living there all along, exposed as a pious fraud.
An account from a modern traveler details a controversial Ethiopian superstition called the tigretter. It begins with fever and sickness, leads to stuttering, and is treated by exorcism or a ritual dance with musicians and intoxicants. A girl cured must answer to her Christian name when a sword is waved.
In Boyd's Reminiscences of Fifty Years an anecdote tells of Lord Kenmure a Scottish nobleman famed for pranks. To amuse two English friends he arranged a breakfast with six eggs laced with horsehair and a gullible inn keeper. The elaborate joke unfolds as the lady prepares and the guests await.
Dr. W B Carpenter recounts somnambulists who write with precision in sleep and without full wakefulness. Cases include a student drafting geometry, a banker solving a problem, an ecclesiastic composing sermons, and a military officer reacting to voices informing dreamlike danger.
A pork dealer’s precocious son learns money from gambling is not earned honestly unless there is an equivalent value. The father explains that honest gain requires exchange of goods or services for value, not taking others’ property. Months later the father celebrates a $50,000 settlement from speculative contracts, and the son questions what equivalent was exchanged.
The Saginaw Courier publishes extracts from M Newton Clark Chaplain of Auburn Prison 1848 diary as part of Lives of Notorious Criminals at Auburn New York. It centers on Ruloff a convict whose conduct in Sabbath school and burglary case reveals a globe of crime and tragedy.
A Boston Herald correspondent proposes organized female emigration to the West to correct the sex ratio imbalance. He notes dozens of thousands more men than women in western states and suggests marriage bureaus or female emigration societies to supply wives, contrasting with long courtships and urging action in concert.
A Liverpool brig Emma was wrecked near St Johns Newfoundland after a storm. The crew reached shore while the cook jumped overboard to save them with a rope and perished. A Newfoundland fisherman Maya and his two sons were saved when their dog led them to a cliff edge.
The Atlanta True Georgian lists city needs including more shade trees water works Georgia Western railroad depot completion street paving and sidewalks cow control sewerage and other items including Sabbath issues.
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